Bubble Bay 28 is a retrospective self adventure of my experiences, thoughts, and acquired wisdom during my first twenty-eight years of life in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Each of these experience is packaged as a poem in katauta form; and every poem is a reminder and a tribute of everything I cherish, which include my family and friends.

James Lister needs to escape his troubles. To take the edge of his malaise he indulges in a nostalgia visit to his hometown to relive happier times. On arrival, he finds his old home is up for sale. James wants to take a look around and poses as a buyer. Once inside the property he experiences a flashback memory of his father furtively hiding something in a loft wall. He dupes the agent in

A young man takes his great-granddad to the store -- a simple occurrence that happens hundreds, maybe thousands of times daily across the world.
But this trip will be something unexpected and special for them both.

“Were you born stupid?” is a phrase I often heard my father ask me as the eldest of his seven children. This memoir is of what now seems an enchanted childhood, written through a boy’s eyes, set in the 1950’s through 70’s, growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. It relates the trials and triumphs of a large Hispanic family, a life abundantly joyful, at times brutal, ever hopeful.

The sixties decade puts together a romantic courtship of two young lovers, Barry and Belinda. Their diaries however show differing perspectives of their young lives and the many escapades will leave you chuckling, especially the antics of Barry and his rather bizarre family.
And for the pop boffins amongst you, there are some hidden sixties pop titles cunningly nestling amongst the text. Have fun!

What would it be like to be the last man on Earth, or at least to believe yourself so? Not only that, but the only other living creature is a live oak tree. Albeit one who listens well, but never speaks. Until it's too late.

Hank Rollins is old, tired, and thoroughly regretting the missed opportunities of his youth. More than a half century ago, he passed up the chance to do something wonderfully foolish, and utterly impossible. A chance to reach for a different kind of future. But that door may not be completely closed, because Hank is getting postcards from a world that never came to pass.